Key takeaways from NTIA listening sessions

Key takeaways from NTIA listening sessions

Public listening sessions held last month on the government’s massive broadband build have been broken down by analysts at Kaptivate.

Some key takeaways from listening sessions held by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) regarding the federal government’s $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program have been compiled by Kaptivate, a communications and consulting firm.

Slides compiled by Kaptivate and published on the company’s website covered comments made at listening sessions held on Feb. 11 and Feb. 18.

The listening sessions centered around potential uses for non-deployment funds associated with BEAD.

According to Kaptivate, some educators and neuroscientists “strongly requested using BEAD savings to divest from the K12 EdTech experiment.”

“As school digitization reached 90%, reading scores dropped and cognitive issues rose, wiping out nearly 50 years of academic gains,” one of the slides states.

A theme of some comments was also to push policymakers towards transitioning digital curricula back to analog formats and printed materials, Kaptivate’s breakdown reveals.

Readers can review more of the takeaways captured by Kaptivate on the company’s website.

Kaptivate also thanked the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society for capturing content at the listening sessions.